Rugged Embedded Systems: Computing in Harsh Environments

Rugged Embedded Systems: Computing in Harsh Environments describes how to design reliable embedded systems for harsh environments, including architectural approaches, cross-stack hardware/software techniques, and emerging challenges and opportunities.

A "harsh environment" presents inherent characteristics, such as extreme temperature and radiation levels, very low power and energy budgets, strict fault tolerance and security constraints, etc. that challenge the computer system in its design and operation. To guarantee proper execution (correct, safe, and low-power) in such scenarios, this contributed work discusses multiple layers that involve firmware, operating systems, and applications, as well as power management units and communication interfaces. This book also incorporates use cases in the domains of unmanned vehicles (advanced cars and micro aerial robots) and space exploration as examples of computing designs for harsh environments.

Provides a deep understanding of embedded systems for harsh environments by experts involved in state-of-the-art autonomous vehicle-related projectsCovers the most important challenges (fault tolerance, power efficiency, and cost effectiveness) faced when developing rugged embedded systemsIncludes case studies exploring embedded computing for autonomous vehicle systems (advanced cars and micro aerial robots) and space exploration

1. Introduction 2. Reliable and power-aware architectures: Fundamentals and modeling 3. Real-time considerations for rugged embedded systems 4. Emerging resilience techniques for embedded devices 5. Resilience for extreme scale computing 6. Security in embedded systems 7. Embedded security 8. Reliable electrical systems for micro aerial vehicles and insect-scale robots: Challenges and progress 9. Rugged autonomous vehicles 10. Harsh computing in the space domain 11. Resilience in next-generation embedded systems